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What’s Wrong With PEN America, and Why We Need It To Survive

For Maris Kreizman, Dissent is Not Censorship

May 9, 2024

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In Praise of Pulitzer Prize-Winner Jayne Anne Phillips

Jonathan Corcoran on the Teacher Who Taught Him That Writing Begins Far From the Page

May 8, 2024

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Inside the Occupation of Columbia’s Hamilton Hall, 1968 Version

From Charles Kaiser’s “1968 in America”

May 3, 2024

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Read the 1962 Short Story That Inspired This Year’s Met Gala Theme

J.G. Ballard’s “The Garden of Time”

May 2, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in May

Because Somehow It’s Still Raining

May 1, 2024

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From Austen to Larkin: Why Writers Could Be More Prone to Hypochondria

Caroline Crampton Considers the Intersection of Creative Pursuits and Health Anxiety

April 26, 2024

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The Problem with Giant Book Preview Lists

Maris Kreizman on One of the Necessary Evils of Book Coverage

April 25, 2024

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Crash Again, Crash Better: A Brief History of Failed Attempts at Human Flight

Joe Fassler Ponders Our Innate Desire to Rise Above It All

April 24, 2024

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Survival of the Wealthiest: Joseph E. Stiglitz on the Dangerous Failures of Neoliberalism

In Which “the Intellectual Handmaidens of the Capitalists” Are Taken to Task

April 24, 2024

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Yan Lianke Wants You to Stop Describing Him As China’s Most Censored Author

On State Censorship, Artistic Integrity, and the Market Forces Behind Local and Global Publishing

April 23, 2024

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“Pale Fire” (Tavi’s Version): Notes on Taylor Swift and the Literature of Obsessive Fandom

Leigh Stein Considers Tavi Gevinson’s New Zine, “Fan Fiction”

April 19, 2024

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How Much is Enough? On the Writerly Balance Between Money and Time

For Novelist Ryan Chapman, “There are wants, and there are needs.”

April 19, 2024

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Writing As Labor: Doing More With Less, Together

David Hill on the Myth of the Middle Class Writer

April 18, 2024

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The Money Diaries: Real Writers, Real Budgets

What Writers Spend in a Week of Their Lives

April 17, 2024

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In Service: Writers on Making Ends Meet in the Service Industry

“It’s easy to remain clueless about how the world works for most people.”

April 17, 2024

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What Christiane Amanpour—and the Rest of Us—Can Learn From Palestinian Journalists in Gaza

Steven W. Thrasher on the Myth of the “Independent Journalist”

April 16, 2024

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Contemporary Literary Novels Are Haunted by the Absence of Money

Naomi Kanakia Wonders Why Nobody Talks About the Thing We All Need

April 16, 2024

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Premonition in the West Bank: Ben Ehrenreich on Life in the Village of Burin

“Sometimes you hear an echo of a sound that has not yet been voiced, of a shot that has not yet been fired.”

April 15, 2024

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50 Ways to End a Poem

Emily Skaja Has Some Recommendations for Making a Strong Exit

April 12, 2024

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A Woman Out of Time: Rebecca Solnit on Mary Shelley’s Dystopian Sci-Fi Novel The Last Man

In Praise of a Truly Innovative Writer

April 9, 2024

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10 Great New Children’s Books Out in April

Caroline CarlsonRecommends Maple Lam, Felicita Sala, Laurie Morrison and More

April 3, 2024

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Vampires, Selkies, Familiars, and More! April’s Best Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books

Career Retrospectives and Historical Fantasies from Cixin Liu, Ann Leckie, Leigh Bardugo, and Others

April 1, 2024

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The Literary Film & TV You Need to Stream in April

April Showers Bring Opportunities to Binge Watch

March 29, 2024

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Here’s Your 2024 Literary Film & TV Preview

53 Shows and Movies to Stream and See This Year

January 10, 2024

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Lit Hub’s Most Anticipated Books of 2024

230 Books We’re Looking Forward to Reading This Year

January 3, 2024

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24 Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Look Forward to in 2024

Exciting New Series’ and Standalones From Kelly Link, Lev Grossman, Sofia Samatar, James S.A. Corey, and More

January 2, 2024

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December 23, 2023

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40 Books to Understand Palestine

From Ghassan Kanafani's "Men in the Sun" to Adania Shibli's "Minor Detail"

November 14, 2023

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A Different Kind of Dad Book: Lucas Mann on Fatherhood, Writing, and the Essay as an Act of Care

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Simon Van Booy on Letting Go and Following the Story Wherever It Takes Him

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Why You Should Keep a Garden Journal (Even if You Don’t Have a Garden)

Fiona Warnick on the Question of What Is Worth Documenting

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How Pregnancy Forever Transforms the Body and the Mind

By Lucy Jones May 9, 2024

The Annotated Nightstand

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

Featuring Julián Delgado Lopera, Bo-Young Kim, Brandon Shimoda, and Others

The Annotated Nightstand: What Wendy Chen is Reading Now, and Next

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Soil As Archive: On the Work of Recognizing Alternate Forms of Sentience

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